Wang Yuesheng once said to Zheng Haizhu that the sound of the piano is the most peaceful sound in the world.
Pressing the sound is like telling the story of one's life.
The sound spreads far and wide.
Overtones, clear and clear.
However, at this moment, Zheng Haizhu couldn't help but feel calm in the sound of Wang Yuesheng's piano.
She stared at Xu Dahua, who was leaning on the armchair, enjoying the way he closed his eyes and shook his head, constantly stimulating adrenaline. She wanted to press this sanctimonious face like the cow urine bubble that Lu Xiangsheng usually used for experiments. Go to the pond in Qingyuan.
I don't know what he is doing!
Wang Yuesheng has been chasing Zheng Haizhu's eyes, using his eyes and simple lip language to tell her, Miss Zheng, it's okay, don't be impulsive.
After listening to three qin tunes in a row, Xu Dahua opened his eyes with satisfaction, and suddenly sighed: "I remember clearly that on the banks of the Qinhuai River, the only person who could make the girl play three qin tunes at once was my fellow countryman, Shanyin." The eldest son of the Zhang family is called... Zhang Dai."
Wang Yuesheng lowered his eyes and said: "The temple minister has a good memory. However, a good man should still be like the temple minister, fulfill his duties, serve the king and the country, collect the world's gold and silver, and benefit the common people."
Xu Dahua pursed his lips: "Thanks to the girl for being so considerate."
In a reproachful tone, he blamed Zheng Haizhu and said: "Please play the harp Guangling guest, the master has wine to enjoy this evening. Miss Zheng, dusk has come, and you don't prepare any wine, how can you enjoy this evening?"
Zheng Haizhu stood up and said: "Master, please wait a moment. I'll ask Zhilong to hire a sedan chair. Xiang Sheng and I will accompany you. Please go to Tinghe Pavilion for dinner. The scenery at Tinghe Pavilion is the best..."
Xu Dahua interrupted her and gestured for her to sit down: "No need to spend a lot of time, just have some drinks and dinner here. I know that you are in a hurry to make firearms, so I am here to treat this meal. I have asked Ah Bao to Went to make purchases."
Zheng Haizhu thought to himself, no wonder he turned around just now and found that Xu Dahua's servant Xu Bao was missing.
She wanted to walk out of the garden to call Lu Xiangsheng, but she didn't want to leave Wang Yuesheng to deal with Xu Dahua alone, so she didn't leave.
She felt like she was sitting on pins and needles when she heard Xu Dahua whine and sing along with the sound of the piano. The sound was harder to hear than the call of an old bird.
After another moment of burning incense, Xu Bao came back carrying two large bamboo food boxes.
Wang Yuesheng accepted the piano.
When Zheng Haizhu got up to scoop water to cleanse Xu Da's hands, he saw Lu Xiangsheng and Zheng Zhilong standing quietly and watching in the distance under the setting sun outside the courtyard.
Her mind settled a little.
This is her own territory. In addition to the two men, Lu and Zheng, there are also the masters of the Ge family, who are also muscular men. If Xu Dahua wants to be strong, it is not enough.
Looking at the table, there are three wine cups, several plates of braised food, and several plates of pastries.
Xu Bao held a wine flask with a fat belly and a narrow neck, and filled three cups.
Xu Dahua picked up the cup and said with a pleasant expression: "Miss Zheng, Miss Wang, I am usually very busy with official duties. Today I can steal half a day of free time. I can discuss firearms with Miss Zheng and enjoy the music of the piano with Miss Wang. It is extremely fun. Come on, do it. After a cup and some side dishes, I will go back to the inn."
Zheng Haizhu saw that he had finished the drink first, and also drank the wine in his own glass. He used up the last bit of patience and said harmoniously: "Thank you, Lord Si, for your understanding. Yuesheng will go to see my servants practice tomorrow. I will compose a poem." She should sing a song and teach it to the school children. She should rest early."
Xu Dahua sneered in his heart, didn't you just hint that you have some power in Songjiang?
This fourth-grade civil servant, who claimed to be noble and romantic, put down his wine cup, raised his chopsticks, picked up a piece of smoked fish, and put it on the plate in front of Wang Yuesheng: "Miss Wang, you are tired of playing. Eat something quickly."
Wang Yuesheng wanted to get up and give a blessing ceremony. He raised his hands halfway and suddenly dropped them. Then his shoulders swayed. He stared at Xu Dahua with a pair of peach blossom eyes, his eyes became more and more blurred. His mouth opened slightly, as if he wanted to speak but couldn't.
Zheng Haizhu was shocked and went up to support Wang Yuesheng: "What's wrong?"
Wang Yuesheng closed his eyes and leaned softly against Zheng Haizhu.
"Miss Zheng, please let Miss Wang rest for a while. She is fine. Ah Bao has a few words to say to you."
Xu Dahua said calmly.
Seeing that Wang Yuesheng was breathing calmly, Zheng Haizhu gently leaned her on the armchair, stood up with a livid face, and walked to the corridor with Xu Bao.
Xu Bao took out the book of poems with the banknote, handed it to Zheng Haizhu, and licked his lips towards the wine table: "The temple minister doesn't want money, he wants people."
Zheng Haizhu was once again treated so directly and shamelessly, which refreshed her outlook on life.
She stared at Xu Bao: "Did you manipulate that wine?"
"It's just a mandarin duck pot. Don't worry, it won't hurt Miss Wang. The temple minister is afraid that you are thin-skinned and soft-hearted. You can't persuade her when she's awake. You might as well follow us to the inn half-drunk like this. After one night, it's fine. In fact, it’s just that in the next ten days, I will accompany the temple minister around the south of the Yangtze River. When the temple minister returns to Beijing, I will ask her to come back. Miss Zheng, don’t think this is such a big deal. They are such bitches. It’s meant to be sold.”
Xu Bao said a few words in a tone that he thought was enough to give the other party face.
Zheng Haizhu faced the other party's sinister, yet somewhat indifferent gaze and asked, "How much can she sell for this time?"
Xu Bao looked at the good-looking face in front of him, feeling a little regretful in his heart.
The master is so willing to bid, it would be great if this person named Zheng can be used as a gift for himself to enjoy.
Although this girl doesn't look as docile as Miss Wang, she is a businessman, and a businessman can negotiate prices more calmly than a bitch.
Forget it, I am a domestic slave after all, and I can’t ask for what my master won’t give me.
Xu Bao then suppressed his temptation and said in a deep voice: "Our master still has a surplus of fifty or sixty thousand silver taels. Buying horses is also buying, and buying cannons is also buying. Girl, do the math for yourself, it's enough How many cannons should be built?”
Zheng Haizhu nodded, turned around and walked back to the wine table.
Xu Dahua put down his wine glass and looked up at her.
"Miss Wang has to compose music tomorrow, so she needs to rest. Xu Siqing, please come back too."
The corners of Xu Dahua's eyes shrank, he leaned back in his chair without moving, and said calmly: "What did you say? Think about it carefully before you speak."
Zheng Haizhu's eyes fell on the wine bottle.
She felt like she had a horn on her head, jumping out of her body, grabbing the front of Xu Dahua's luxurious brocade-patterned robe, and angrily scolded him: "What are you asking me for?" Let me fucking tell you, if Xu Guangqi hadn’t asked you, bastard Gu Nian, to come here, I wouldn’t have said anything, but would have done something, such as smashing your pig face with a wine pot!
In this brief moment, Zheng Haizhu held it in until her lungs were about to explode, and finally controlled her hand to reach for the wine bottle.
"Si Qing, please come back." She repeated coldly.
"Hoo..."
Xu Dahua let out a dark laugh from deep in his throat.
He turned slightly, glanced into the distance, sighed, and said to Xu Bao: "Let's go. Although Miss Zheng doesn't have much money on this mountain, she has quite a few people. She has developed her stubborn temper. Not to be offended."
The fourth-rank official stood up, dusted off his robe, stared at Zheng Haizhu, said, "Miss Zheng, see you later," and walked out of Qingyuan with his head held high.
Xu Bao cursed a few words, "If you don't know what is good or bad, you will suffer the consequences" and hurriedly followed the pace of his master.
After the two shameless masters and servants finally disappeared, Zheng Haizhu sat down on the chair.
Lu Xiangsheng and Zheng Zhilong ran in quickly. Before they could ask, Wang Yuesheng, opposite Zheng Haizhu, suddenly opened his eyes.
Zheng Haizhu stood up in a daze: "You, are you okay?"
Wang Yuesheng stood up unsteadily, and when he opened his mouth, his words were somewhat tongue-tied, but not incoherent.
"Girl... don't blame me. I was on guard. Because when Xu Dahua was in the Qinhuai River, he used a mandarin duck pot for me, a sister who refused to be combed and had a fierce temper. Just now I saw Xu Bao and gave it to me. When Xu Dahua poured wine for you and when he poured wine for me, his gestures were different. When he put the wine pot on the table, I saw clearly that there were two holes on the left and right sides of the pot handle, so I vomited when I wiped my mouth after drinking. few."
After Zheng Haizhu heard this, he grabbed the wine pot and took a closer look. Sure enough, he found two small holes the size of mung beans on the curved handle near the neck of the pot.
She opened the lid and looked inside, only to see that the neck of the pot was divided into two parts, all the way to the fat pot body. The entire wine pot was like a mandarin duck pot, and the liquids they contained were incompatible with each other.
The anger in Zheng Haizhu's chest had already boiled like a hot pot. Just as he was about to smash the dirty wine pot on the ground, he suddenly thought that this was the physical evidence of his confession with Xu Guangqi, so he had to put it back on the table. He grabbed the wine cup in front of him and threw it to the ground.
Accompanied by the sound of cracking porcelain pieces, Zheng Haizhu looked at Wang Yuesheng and said word by word: "Are you trying me?"
Wang Yuesheng was frightened by the unfamiliar resentment in these eyes. He suddenly knelt on the ground with a thud and confessed urgently: "I didn't, Miss Zheng, I didn't. I was afraid that you would cause trouble because of me."
Lu Xiangsheng stepped forward in three or two steps, wanting to help Wang Yuesheng, but he couldn't reach out, so he turned sideways and said to Zheng Haizhu: "Are you going to let Miss Wang expose that Xu Dahua on the spot? She must have cared not to implicate us at that time."
Lu Xiangsheng's tone was stiff. He was a little angry that Zheng Haizhu was suspicious of Wang Yuesheng.
Wang Yuesheng raised his head, his eyes reflecting the last ray of light that was about to disappear into darkness.
"Miss Zheng, I have no intention of testing you. I guess that the dog officer is going to take me away. I just want to drink less medicine. Don't really know the situation. I must save my strength. When the dog officer comes, Where he lives, if he fights with her to the death, even if he stabs him with a hairpin, he will not find any bad luck in the girl."
Zheng Haizhu stared at her, and when he spoke again, his tone finally showed despair: "So, did you think at that time that I would let Xu Dahua take you away like this? If Zhang Dai treats you as a human being, I will not treat you as a human being. ?"
Wang Yuesheng paused suddenly, staring blankly at Zheng Haizhu. After a while, his voice trembled slightly and he said, "Young lady is a good person."
Zheng Haizhu took a deep breath, sighed heavily, held Wang Yuesheng's cold hand, and helped her up.
"Xiang Sheng, First Officer, you guys also sit down," Zheng Haizhu motioned to Lu Xiangsheng and Zheng Zhilong, and then said to Cui Yu'er who came over after hearing the noise and timidly stopped in the distance, "I have a jar of wine in my room. Go get the fish, and get four cups of our own.”
Cui Yu'er moved back and forth in confusion and placed the wine glasses on the table.
Zheng Haizhu pointed at the wine and said: "I bought it half a month ago. The store said it was a good wine. I don't understand. It's quite expensive. It should be a good wine. At that time, Xu Hanlin said he would bring us the God of Wealth, so I said I thought, if we really get a lot of money to make firearms, we will open this jar of wine and celebrate it."
After she finished speaking, she went to pull off the wooden cover of the wine jar, but her hands were shaking and she couldn't use any strength.
Lu Xiangsheng removed her hand, took off the lid, and filled all four bowls with wine.
Zheng Haizhu drank it all in one gulp, and immediately coughed violently. While coughing, he spat: "Okay, I seem to have been cheated. It's only two taels of silver for a jar! It doesn't taste very good."
Without waiting for the other three people to react, she laughed again: "But it's quite spicy and has enough energy. Alas, it's too late to drink. Drinking makes people brave. If only I drank it just now, it would be fine. I will definitely, definitely grab it. That Xu Dahua, ask him, have all your sages' books been read into the stomach of dogs? Are you wearing a chicken-blood red official robe, can you shamelessly trample on the people? You fucking think it's too much Did you get the hundreds of thousands of taels of silver in the Pusi yourself? They were all given to the court by the people you worked for, who worked hard, sold their bodies, and sold their lives, and gave them to the court every penny!"
Lu Xiangsheng, Wang Yuesheng and Zheng Zhilong looked at Miss Zheng who had completely changed. They didn't dare to talk to her, and they were not in the mood to drink. They just listened to her in a daze.
Zheng Haizhu vented his anger, then filled his bowl with wine. Gu Dongdong took a big sip and continued: "Wu Bondang, the descendant of Wu Weizhong, whom I met in Zhenjiang, told me that back then, Qi Jiajun was in Jizhen At that time, the Japanese invaded North Korea, and the imperial court mobilized the army. The soldiers left without saying a word. General Wu almost lost his life in Pyongyang.
Then, the military pay promised by the court was not paid. At that time, General Wu had been relieved of military power by the imperial court and left Jizhen. The soldiers had no one to make the decision and could only gather around General Wang of Jizhen to explain. The man named Wang was already jealous of Qi Jiajun. He led his own troops like a waste, but he was first-class in conspiracy and conspiracy. He found the imperial censor and slandered the Qi family's army for raising wages and wanted to rebel.
Those censors, those civil servants of the Ming Dynasty who had the same conscience as today's Xu Dahua, together with the man surnamed Wang, deceived the officers and soldiers of the Qi family army to the school grounds in the name of pay.
Name them one by one.
Everyone thought they were paid according to their names so that they could take them home to save their hungry wives and children. Who would have thought that after everything had been checked, arrows were fired. Thirteen hundred elites! Thirteen hundred living soldiers of the Qi family army who had fought countless victorious battles for the Ming Dynasty were shot to death by their own people, arrow by arrow.
Does this court still have any dignity? "
After Zheng Haizhu finished speaking, he leaned on the chair tiredly.
The Jade Rabbit rises in the east.
Half an ice wheel, quietly overlooking the world.
The water in the clear garden reflects the bright moon in the sky.
Zheng Haizhu tried her best to look at the moon shadow in the water through the haze of alcohol in front of her eyes.
Lu Xiangsheng saw that she had finally calmed down a bit, so he followed her gaze and looked at the pond where he simulated naval battles for the children for a while, and then he said: "Sister, what we do will not be like fishing for the moon in the water but in vain. Daming Ming Dynasty The court will not be filled with shameless people like Xu Dahua."
The corners of Zheng Haizhu's mouth curled up, and she stared at Lu Xiangsheng. Her last words before she passed out were: "You'd better do your best, and you'll win the imperial examination next year, and the year after that you'll be a Jinshi. You must remember Xu Dahua, and you must remember to The censor who wants to trap and kill Qi Jiajun must remember that this group of cadavers are shameless, shameless, and harmful to the people. When you become an official, you must not become the person you hate the most."
